There is a heavy security presence at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Abeokuta Branch. Policemen in the early hours of Monday, deployed operatives to the Apex bank branch at Okelewo, Abeokuta to avert possible attacks by criminal elements. It was gathered that there was an intelligence report that some individuals might attack the bank…
According to the report, the assailants conducted a house-to-house search before the villagers realized that they were under attack. The person who was killed tried to run for safety when his house was invaded causing the terrorists to shoot him. The injured are receiving treatment at the Kontagora General Hospital while local vigilantes and the…
Scores of youths and students in Ibadan, Oyo State have staged another protest against the lingering scarcity of naira notes and petroleum. The Monday morning protest took off from the front gate of the University of Ibadan on Monday. The protesters said they staged the protest to express their dissatisfaction over the lingering scarcity of…
A CBN joint security operation with EFCC & ICPC busted a bank that reportedly had over 287 million redesigned Naira notes hidden in its vault. A video shared online shows new Naira notes stacked on shelves and the floor in an inner room in the bank. This discovery was made amid cash scarcity that has…
A 28-year-old man identified as Amechi Ogo has been handed a life sentence by the Delta State High Court sitting in Asaba for having unlawful carnal knowledge of his 4-year-old daughter. The defendant was arraigned on a charge of r#pe at Asaba on 31st May 2018, contrary to Section 218 of the Criminal Code…
A lawmaker of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Smart Adeyemi of Kogi State said seven days is too long for President Muhammadu Buhari to deal with the currency crisis. Adeyemi, a former president of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, made this disclosure to newsmen in Abuja. He was reacting to President Buhari’s comment…
The decomposed bodies of two abducted wives and five children of the traditional ruler of Mutumbiyu Chiefdom in Taraba State, Justice Sani Muhammed, have been discovered. Recall that the gunmen suspected to be kidnappers stormed the monarch’s residence in Jalingo on January 19, 2023, and whisked away several hostages including the monarch’s family. Spokesperson of…
The Katsina State Police Command says 41 persons were killed following an ambush by gunmen at Yargoje forest in the state. Spokesperson of the command, SP Gambo Isah, who disclosed this in a statement said the incident occurred on Thursday, February 2, 2023. Isah said the gunmen invaded the home of one Alhaji Muntari in…
Hassan Azeez, a 46-year-old man, has been arrested by men of Ogun State Police Command. He was nabbed for pouring petrol on his wife and setting her ablaze. The command spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement issued in Abeokuta yesterday, said the suspect was arrested following a report lodged at Ibogun divisional headquarters by…
As many as three three persons are feared to have lost their lives in a building collapse in Rivers State. They are feared dead after a building under construction caved in along Isi Ewu road, Nbodo Community in Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State. It was gathered that the dead victims were labourers working…